Where your settings are stored

Find the Settings Saver store on Windows, macOS and Linux, see what each file in it holds, and move it with a JVM argument or environment variable.

Settings Saver keeps your profiles in one folder per user, outside every game instance: the store. Every instance on the computer reads and writes the same store, whatever launcher started it. This guide shows where the store is, what is inside and how to move it.

Default location#

The game log names it at every launch, in a line like this:

[Settings Saver] Starting on ..., store=/home/alex/.config/settings-saver

What is inside#

settings-saver.properties              global config: backups, defaultProfile
.lock                                  lets several games share the store safely
profiles/
  default/
    profile.properties                 the profile's excluded settings
    vanilla/options.txt                the saved settings
  pvp/
    ...
backups/
  vanilla/                             options.txt files replaced by Load or auto + always apply

• settings-saver.properties holds the global settings.
• Each folder in profiles is one profile. Its profile.properties holds the excluded settings, and vanilla/options.txt the saved settings.
• backups holds copies of instance files Settings Saver replaced. See Restoring a backup.

The saved options.txt is always in the newest format Settings Saver knows (26.3), whatever version you saved it from. Settings Saver converts it when it applies it to an older version. See Converting between versions.

Each instance also has its own config/settings-saver.properties, inside the instance's game folder, with its profile and sync mode.

Move the store#

To keep the store somewhere else, for example on another drive or in a synced folder, point Settings Saver at it in one of two ways. The first one set wins.

1. The JVM argument -Dsettingssaver.home=<folder>, added to the instance's Java arguments in your launcher. It applies to that instance only.
2. The environment variable SETTINGS_SAVER_HOME=<folder>. It applies to every game started with that variable.

-Dsettingssaver.home=D:\Games\SettingsSaver

Copy the old store folder to the new place with every game closed, then start the games. A folder without a store gets a new, empty one.

Take your settings to another computer#

Copy the store folder to the same location on the other computer (or to a folder you point at as above) while no game is running. Every profile, exclusion list and backup comes along. Settings Saver converts the settings for whatever Minecraft versions you play there.